‘As a Permanent Makeup artist, I would see clients for eyebrow enhancements who were about to go through chemotherapy for Breast cancer,’ Claire Louise told metro.co.uk. ‘I knew then Medical tattooing was something that I needed to train in.’

(Picture: Claire Louise Willis)

‘When I speak to my ladies about the journey they have been on, the trauma and sometimes tragedies they go through, it simply would not sit comfortably with me to get out my card machine and ask for a payment.

‘This needs to be a pleasant end to what is a very difficult journey.’

The process is fairly simple. The Permanent Cosmetic Academy now has machinery that delivers pigment into the skin in a speedy way that can create the shading of the areola, the 3D effect of the nipple, and all the details of the surrounding glands, creating a super realistic finished nip.

(Picture: Claire Louise Willis)

It’s a huge deal for women who are working on feeling beautiful again after cancer.